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["Alex Hudson \(QI\)" <ah@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

$ dpkg -l libreoffice libreoffice-core
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                         Version             Architecture        Description
+++-============================-===================-===================-=============================================================
ii  libreoffice                  1:4.2.7-0ubuntu2    amd64               office productivity suite (metapackage)
ii  libreoffice-core             1:4.2.7-0ubuntu2    amd64               office productivity suite -- arch-dependent files

I installed libreoffice on a bare-bones server, to run headless - just
doing 'apt-get install libreoffice'. By default, the EPS image support
was broken in a non-obvious way - templates with EPS files would open,
but the image would be a blank/transparent frame and no error was
generated.

It turned out that I needed the 'ghostscript' package as well. For
whatever reason, that wasn't installed by default on the server, and
installing libreoffice didn't pull it in.

I would suggest that this be a dependency of the package; while for
desktop users it's probably not an issue, and therefore is a small
portion of the userbase, until LO gets native EPS support this could
confuse people.

** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1402358

Title:
  EPS files don't import correctly

Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  $ dpkg -l libreoffice libreoffice-core
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name                         Version             Architecture        Description
  +++-============================-===================-===================-=============================================================
  ii  libreoffice                  1:4.2.7-0ubuntu2    amd64               office productivity suite (metapackage)
  ii  libreoffice-core             1:4.2.7-0ubuntu2    amd64               office productivity suite -- arch-dependent files

  I installed libreoffice on a bare-bones server, to run headless - just
  doing 'apt-get install libreoffice'. By default, the EPS image support
  was broken in a non-obvious way - templates with EPS files would open,
  but the image would be a blank/transparent frame and no error was
  generated.

  It turned out that I needed the 'ghostscript' package as well. For
  whatever reason, that wasn't installed by default on the server, and
  installing libreoffice didn't pull it in.

  I would suggest that this be a dependency of the package; while for
  desktop users it's probably not an issue, and therefore is a small
  portion of the userbase, until LO gets native EPS support this could
  confuse people.

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